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… Skills Plan. We will identify skills gaps through the Skills and Talent Sub Group. F10 Conduct an audit of the current carbon reduction activities that are taking place in Swindon Schools via Healthy Schools leads 2021 Su Rai / Claire Fleming We will audit the current position of work around this subject and understand the next steps and provisions required to develop this work further…

…;MId=9909 https://ww5.swindon.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=285&MId=10130  For clarity and consistency in our terminology, we are moving away from using “carbon reduction” and “carbon emissions”, to talk more precisely about reducing all GHG emissions (measured in carbon dioxide equivalent, CO2e).  This first iteration of the Net Zero Emissions Plan has…

… from the environment. This can be achieved by a combination of emission reduction and emission removal. When the amount of GHG emissions produced by a country, organisation or place are cancelled out by the amount removed, it will be a net zero emitter. GHG emissions can be removed by the natural environment (e.g. stored in soils, trees and the ocean) or by using technologies like carbon capture…

… for building a competitive, greener future for the manufacturing and construction sector. It is set to publish a Net Zero Strategy ahead of COP26, as well as a Heating and Building Strategy and Transport Decarbonisation Plan.  The Future Homes Standard8, due to be introduced by 2025, will require new build homes to be future-proofed with low carbon heating and leading levels of energy efficiency…

… offsetting by the same date, with the aim of making the council’s estate and activities net-zero carbon by 2030.”  The Council has also taken the additional commitment to support the wider borough to transition to net zero GHG emissions by 2050. This was set out in the Carbon Reduction Strategy12 approved by the Council’s Cabinet in February 2021, following public consultation on the draft strategy…